The husband of a prison worker charged with helping two convicted killers escape from an upstate New York prison “can’t stand by her” and was “blown away” when she revealed a plot to murder him, his lawyer said on Thursday. Lyle Mitchell, who like his wife, Joyce, worked at the Clinton correctional facility in Dannemora, New York, did not know about the escape plans until they were discovered missing on 6 June, his lawyer, Peter Dumas, told NBC’s Today television program. The two convicts broke through steel walls, slipped through a steam pipe and emerged from a manhole outside the 170-year-old maximum-security…

His uncle worried he was cooped up in his room too much. The few images of him found easily online suggest he had a fascination with white supremacy, publicly embracing its symbols. And for his birthday this year, his father bought the young man a pistol, the uncle said. Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white man, was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of having fatally shot nine people at a historic African-American church in South Carolina. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Wednesday’s attack as a hate crime, motivated by racism or other prejudice. Those who know Roof described a…

(Reuters)…Euro zone leaders will hold an emergency summit on Monday to try to avert a Greek default after bank withdrawals accelerated and government revenue slumped as Athens and its international creditors remain deadlocked over a debt deal. Finance ministers of the 19-nation currency bloc failed to make any breakthrough on a cash-for-reforms agreement at talks in Luxembourg on Thursday, just 12 days beforeGreece must make a crucial debt repayment to the International Monetary Fund. “Regrettably … too little progress has been made. No agreement is in sight,” Jeroen Dijsselbloem, chairman of the Eurogroup, told a news conference. Ministers sent a strong signal that…

By Matt Morgan (The Palm Beach Post)…A Boca Raton woman was arrested after she allegedly drove drunk, rear-ended another vehicle and became combative with Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies Tuesday night. Monica Felzer, 35, crashed into the back of the other car on the off-ramp of Southern Boulevard near State Road 7 in Royal Palm Beach, the report said. She and another woman were returning from a concert at the South Florida Fairgrounds. The other driver told Felzer that she hit the car, but Felzer denied it and drove away. The other driver followed her and called PBSO deputies who stopped the…

Police in the Mexican city of Reynosa in north-eastern state Tamaulipas state have dismantled 39 surveillance video cameras installed by a local gang. Officers said they surprised two people attaching a camera to a post in a city street on Wednesday evening. The two said they were acting on the orders of a criminal gang, which uses the cameras to monitor the movements of the security forces. Reynosa is racked by violence, with two drug cartels vying for control. The two suspects took officers to the locations of the other 37 cameras they had already installed. They had been put…